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Chicago examiner vol xii no 27 a m thursday Chicago january 22 1914 thursday registered in u s patent office price one cent gf'sk kriffil harrison knocks out vote fraud case props identifies letter charging crooked work was attempted against hoyne as written by harris prosecuting witness robert e crowe says letter was effort on part of election judge to save himself from prosecution on serious charges mayor carter h harrison and police lieutenant michael 3 gallery yesterday cave testimony in the so-termed vote fraud trial that proved a bombshell to the prosecution it not only great iy weakened the case gainsl the four defendants who are ac ii . altering ballots in the sixteenth precinct l the eighteenth ward but practically ii â€¢<"'!; the foundation from under the charges with this testimony the defense closed its ase the testimony charged the chief prose uting witness james a harris demo cratic judge of election in the precinct and ward named with working hard to pa off a persona grudge against joseph gordon one of the four defendants charged but one fraud ii quoted an admission from him that be saw only one of the defendants mark anj ballot this picture 'Â»; harris was painted in â– 8 wi i:'.':u ; i;tue in iotir-rs iiq wrote to mayor ind to l.icuu-iiam gallery were identified by them on the . estentu . and read into the evi i pile l"llers inspired attorney robert e 1 fiiu gor die defense to say that they worr evidence on the part of harris of 'Â« strenuous enort to shield himself from criminal proaesntlon in ! olh letters harris holds himself up :. â– n mod zealous worker for the in teresls of stave attorney maclay hoyne and county commissioner peter bartzeu and is fearful iest he be regarded as hav ing ivorked i^aiust them charges money was spent in ji is letter to the mayor harris ad mits i knowledge of frauds in the six teenth precinct f the eighteenth ward ml insists that they were not committed iu the interests nf hoyne or bartzen but t.i i -: the election of i.eland s hasp candidate l'"r municipal court clerk har ris accuses llapp of spending money lav isiii in that campaign harris als makes . palpable effort to intrench himself in the mayor's good sraces by ecouutiug alleged political work he did on i chair of the late farter h harrison sr lieutenant gallery said that harris in â– conversation with him regarding gor doa last august said i will never rest until i have scut the to the peniten tiary tlie letter to gallery written by har ria also emphasized the animosity afc'aiusr fiordou treasured by harris and con tained an admission that in tlie election of november vjyj he harris opened â– warfare on gordon the defense introduced another bit of si-mfieant testimony in the evidence of fered by the only woman wit ness heard she was mrs elsie scbaefer i2o west twelfth street where gordon boarded at the time of the 1912 election she tes tified that gordon on election night that year came home at 10 o'clock this flat ly contradicted the testimony offered by the prosecution that he did not leave the polling place until after 11 o'clock deny altering ballots both gordon and rose took the stand yesterday to deny that they had altered or in any way interfered with or meddled vith any ballots in the election of 1012 knottier feature of yesterday's session was the testimony of lefand bapp him self who denied knowing any of the de l'-udants or of contributing any money '" the campaign of 12 while he was testifying the four defendants joseph llordou david rose thomas geary and ' barles baranov sill directly facing the wiiiie i ; "'' letter i mayor harrison identi 3 tvrltten by harris which was read i the jury after northup had fought to keep it out of the evidence was as fol lu view r be many erroneous fn^omentp that have boon mafle as to my position as a prosecuting wil ness hi the election cases from this precinct i deem it my duty to pre n in you : s leader of our organ ization some inside facts dating the presidential campaign it was a well known fact that lelaud american women praised by kaiser wonderful he exclaims after they are presented at levee special cable to the examiner uehun jan l'l the kaiser was greatly impressed by the beauty and charm of the american women presented by ambassador gerard at yesterday's levee after the function he expressed the keen pleasure that their presence gave him and is reported to have said the americans were wonderful a more distinguished looking group of wom en i have never seen among those presented were mrs qe rard mrs norman whitehouse mrs harry j luce and daughter mrs ernest wiltsee mrs joseph c grew and mrs robert k cassatt of philadelphia melba loses jewels when visiting here advertises for dress ornament and offers reward advertisements in this morning's news papers disclo-e that mme nellie melba world-famed soprano has lost one of the most valuable pieces of her collection of jewels the article is described as a large dress ornament bow design studded with dia monds with i ruby center and a pear shaped pearl j.emluul and worth several thousand dollars mme melba believes the loss occurred on tuesday evening in peacock alley in the congress hotel or iu michigan ave nue between the congress and the black stone she lifters a reward for the re turn of the jewels mormon prophet invokes mann act joseph f smith causes arrest of pair in los angeles los angki.ks jan 21 â€” a telegram from joseph v smith heÂ«nj of the mor mon church caused the arrest here to day of thomas major prominent mor mon mid nellie hawthorne until recent ly employed iu the smith household m salt lake ity major said to be heir fn i ri'h estate in scotland and to have a wife and two children in g-lasgow is charged with violation of the mann art helen gould shepard to help 700 men celebrates first anniversary of | marriage by philanthropy new yokk jan 1.-lu celebration of the first anniversary of her wedding mrs kinley 1 shepard who was miss j helen gould will provide dinners for ! 300 homeless aien and beds for 00 to 1 morrow nigh the dinners will be served in the hadley bescue hall where a year j ago 1.000 were dined at miss goulds ex pense on the evening of her marriage madame modjeska's son seeks decree portland ore lan 21 ralph modjeska son of the late madame mod ; jeska has filed suit for divorce from felicie modjeska on grounds of deser tlon he claims she left him june 15 ; 1910 in Chicago her love for poland i and europe is blamed howard disciplined for carabao dinner washington jan 21 â€” rear ad | i miral howard who before being rebuked j ! for participating on the carabao dinner | j wa.s slated to command the asiatic fleet j i was assigned t.'-day by secretary of the | navy daniels to command the pacific j fleet operating in pacific mexican waters rear admiral cowlea will get the place intended for admiral howard u.s.and japan reach deadlock on alien law foreign minister charges that third note of protest is unanswered to demand new treaty imperial parliament at tokio in formed that all negotiations have failed special cable to the examiner ' tokio japan jan 21 â€” japan regards i as not at all satisfactory tie replies made | by the cnited states to her protests in connection with the california alien land ownership leyislation according to a statement made today by baron nebuaki mi kino the japanese foreign minister in a long summary of the japauese-amer lean negotiations giveu in his aunjial ad dress to parliament he continued japan recognizes the necessity of elaborating other plans for the solu tion of the question th nature of these plans 1 am as yet unable to report | baron makino's declaration tjuat no an . swer whatever had been made by the united states to japan's third protest i presented in august was the signal for an attack on the government by several j members of the opposition who alleged i i liar too much reliance had been placed - ii the good will of america negotiations deadlocked washington jan 21 the address by baron makind u;;s cabled iu full frotn ' toliio to the japanese embassy here the ' embassy considered it important enough i to make public its full text to-night baron makino's speech is interpreted here gs meaning that the present nego ! tiations have come to an absolute dead lock and that japan will demand a new treaty defining the lights r.l japanese i;i â€¢ amcii'-a and at amc.riiiims iu japan . barou matini rfddress officially made j _ pnblie the full racoro of the negotiations i in wren japan and america Â« most un usual thins and probably intended as an appeal to the public opinion of the world ! baron makino recited in detail the steps in the negotiations beginning with the japanese ambassador's interview with j president wilson on mr.r i the president told the ambassador that although the federal government ; could not interfere with lights reserved to several states of ihe i'nion be would nut hesitate lo use his efforts with the ' state of california to meet the wishes of j japan said baron makino . the effort of secretary bryan to in j duce the california legislature to modify i the legislation was detailed and mr i bryan's expression of regret as the pas sage of the legislation was told a ' second futile exchange of notes was de j ' scribed ; ' the japanese government then pre ! pared the third note of protest said j baron makino and caused the ambassa â– â– lor in present it on august is to the sec ! retary of state which note remains uu ' answered builder of monitor dies in brooklyn ('. h corbett seventy-two years old i father of mrs i g bndloug of win i netka ami who superintended the build ing of ihe famous ironclad monitor j which defeated the rain merrimac in the i civil war is dead in brooklyn n 1 j the rev mr budlong and mrs buu | long have gone east for the funeral i mr corbett was vice president of the continental iron company at whose brooklyn yard the little ironclad was built for ericson the inventor germans raid u.s tobacco trust office documentary evidence is taken showing control of business special cable u hm examiner mucsden jnn 21 the german gov ernment has iuat given a practical illus tration of the manner in which it expects to check the operations of the amer ican tobacco trust here and break up the trade combination the offices of twenty-three eigaret fac tories were searched and the police con fiscated a lariie amount of documentary evidence showing the relations of the trust and the factories Taft denounces sex plays as vicious former restraints of modesty abandoned asserts ex-president philadelphia jan 21 former president Taft iu ail address at the com mencement exercises of a local busiuess college to-night denounced sex literature and sex plays they spread lubricity under the plea that vice may be avoided by teaching its awful consequences he said by dwelling on its details auu explaining ts penalties sexual subjects are obtruded into discussion between the sexes and former restraints of modesty are aban doned tango is immodest asserts cardinal dance is sinful is pronounce ment of venetian dignitary special cable to tlie examiner romk jan 21 â€” announcement is made to-night that a further pronouncement againÂ«t the tango and other modern dances has been issued by cardinal ai'is tidp cavallani of venice a letter issued by the cardinal says hie tango dance is disgustingly im modest those who take part iu such dances must have lost all moral sense it is sinful and nil who participate in it commit sin mrs vanderbilt gets aid in drug war chief magistrate mcadoo will co operate in campaign nkw robki jan 2l men prominent iu welfare work to-day enlisted in the cam paign being carried on by mrs william k vanderbilt against the sale of co caine morphine and heroin k colter of 2 rector street chosen by mrs vau derbilt to wake an investigation of the conditions under which these drugs are obtained and sold conferred with chief magistrate mcadoo who declared he would co-operate dr o f lewis sec retary to ihe prison association offered the assistance of his organization d a r will make fight on j.p.morgan martha washington will recovery to be made national issue washington jan 21 the virginia daughters of the american revolution through the stale regent mrs james maupin to-day appealed lo the national board management to assist in the recov ery of martha washington's will from j l'ierpont morgan of new york a motion was passed to take it up as a national matter burglar is caught in aid capitain's home a burglar was caught iu the basement of the home of alderman henry d capl tain 1540 kenilworth avenue last night by policeman arthur kerglund of uog ers park station the burglar gave his name as aruold west and he had a diamond-studded watch charm and two watches grahame-white to fly over atlantic special cable to the examiner london jan 21 claude urabaine white does not think that orville wright will be able to fly across the atlantic this yaer but mr white himself hopes to do it next year he says he must not tell the details yet but hopes to carry from three to six passengers king christian x talks in phonograph sprcia cable o un examinw copenhagen jim kiug ctiru itian x is the hrst monarch who bus talked into n pliono^riipli for the pur pose of preserving his vftlce for ihe historic phonographic nrcttives in be ! danish royal library hi repented iu the instrument his proclmnnttoua mid ii.s speech made from th balcony of t*'e amalienliorg palace when he received the crown 15,000,000 to be given for radium cure in u.s h c frick believed to be mil lionaire who has made offer of fortune for free treatment of cancer victims in country i dr john ege modest country physician of reading pa re ports many marvelous cases of recovery by use of mineral new york jan 21 henry c frick ; is believed to be the pittsburgh million \ aire who is contemplating a gift of ap i proximately 15,000,000 for the establish , ment of twenty radium hospitals in dif j ferent sectons of the tinted states mr frick would neither affirm nor deny that it was he who was referred to by ] joseph 51 flannery president of the ; : standard chemical company in his tes timony in washington when asked if he was considering a i gift of 15,000,000 for the establishment i lof radium hospitals mr frick said i ; j have no statement to make \ 15,000,000 for radium plant washington jan 21.-j ii flanery i ; of pittsburgh to-day before the house j mines and mining committee declared i there was a philanthropist who stood i ready to donate 1.i.n00.000 for establish i i ing radium plants in this country to aid i the ancfir iufi'eriug poor there is a philanthropist who has ai - plan to put up twenty institutions in the centers f population such as new york | Chicago huston and the rest at a cost of i jj3,000,000 bo that all cancer victims j may he treated free at charge he wants j ! in have five sfaras of radium for each ! of these twenty places mr kianueiy declared that the phii&a ] thropist would not carry out his bene laetion should the government embark i in conservation of radium ores and pro ! j duction of radium for free use in this ! country offer at 80,000 a gram subject to the approval of my buard lot directors by telephone or telegram | he said i will contract to sell 200 grams i jof radium to this government within j the neit fite years bginuing january 1 i ! ims at th rate of 80,000 a grain that i is the maximum cost there is a strong i 1 possibility that it might be lower than that before the five years ran out reading pa jan jl dr howard i v kelly of johns hopkins hospital bal i iimore and dr robert abbe of st ' lukes hospital new york have been \ ! gaiiiing world-wide lame by their very i i recent announcements of success with the j radium treatment for cancer but dr john ege a modest country physician of this town was probably the tirst amer ican physician lo prove the wonderful j power of radium to cure cancer j used it since 1904 dr ege has used it constantly since 1004 he has cured iu some cases tuber culosis of the joints and appendicitis and ! has even restored sight dr ege owns twelve tubes of radium of from 10,000 to j,otx>,ikÃŸi degrees of activity mrs h t stoutt of this city was treated by dr ege iu march 1910 for epithelioma of the left side of the nose | he applied 200 milligrams of radium to i the growth and within two months mrs | stoutt was entirely cured john haldeman of sunbury pa sev enty-eight years old had suffered for a year from cancers on both hands when on june 4 3906 he was given the first radium treatment on november 10 1900 dr ege pronounced the case as permanently cured radium had been applied seven times mrs s hollands fifty-three who had been suffering for several years with lupus vulgaris was given treatment by radium by dr ege the growth had spread over the entire face leaving an unsightly cavity in the center of the forehead on april 10 1910 ten milli grams of pure radium was applied later five additional tubes of radium of a milder degree of activity were used within less than three months tlie growth disappeared eva booth suffers general breakdown new york jan 21 commander kva booth of the salvation army is at the narr;i>-ks hero suffering with a severe hronch|al attack and general physical . breakdown following a meeting in isuf 1 f : i lf where she collapsed dr llarlow ri brooks . says her coudltiou is grave but not nlnrming girl artist disappears rich beautiful and 17 police hunt kidnapers daughter of wealthy manufac turer drops out of sight on city streets miss judith klassner of dusseldorf ger ' many niece of henry hitter wealthy metal sash manufacturer living at o.'i7 1 seminary avenue has disappeared in chi cago under circumstances which have caused grave alarm miss klassner is seventeen years old beautiful and tal i ented as a water color artist and said to be wealthy in her own right since coming to Chicago miss klassner has lived at the home of relatives 3733 greenview nvemie on january 17 she left there to visit friends ai 1 forty eighth street and langley avenue she flid not reach her destination she did not return to her rooms she did not com municate in any way with friends or rela tives s mr ritter exhausted all personal efforts lo trace his iiece before seeking the as sistance of the police then he appealed i to captain lames madklen of the town hall station i.iio assigned detective zable and gallon to find the missing girl they believe she may have been abducted and are seeking the kidnapers the detectives learned of her expressed desire to go on the stage some time all the art galleries were visited in vain individual artists some of whom knew of miss klassner's woru knew nothing of her disappearance her friends could offer no suggestion save that the girl might have lost her way in seeking to cross the city but even if that were true said hitter she would have been all light for she speaks english perfectly and she has traveled enough to know how to get assistance the trouble is worse than that on the strength of the possibility that the girl might have decided to try omt her ability as an actress the detectives communicated with many of the booking offices in the city none had booked a gill bearing miss klassner's description there are still some booking agencies hi Chicago that the deteetvres have not yet had time to canvas i cannot believe that my nieces would take a stage position without telling some of her friends or relatives said bitter and yet she did have an ambition in that direct ion and that is why her father wladiiuir klassner rich manu facturer constated io let her come to a nu hca miss jtidith elassner cullom is dying in way he desired absence of physical pain is feature of statesman's last illness washington jan 22 â€” at 2:45 a m former senator cullom was losing ground and his phy sicians were of the opinion that the ; end was near washington jan 21 after rallying j tin lie middle of the day former sena ; tor shelby m cullom of Illinois began i to fail late ii afternoon and to-night i it was i'.elij'w-i nis death was only a mat ter of hours the approach of death causes the veter an statesman none of the physical pain for which he had previously said he felt i a natural ire.id it is coming on him slowly and j:eni;y although very feeble he still retains consciousness and chats with those at his bedside i have iio great fear of death he wrote in his ixjok fifty years of public ; service two jeurs ago except the nat ural dread of the physical pain which i usually accompanies it i certainly wish | beyond any words i have power io ex j press that i could have greater assurance i that there will be a reuniting with those we love and fhose who have loved us iu some future yorld hut from my reading [ of scripture and even admitting that j there is a hereafter i cannot find any satisfactory evidence to warrant such a belief could 1 believe that i should meet the i loved ones who have gone before i do 1 not know but that t should look forward j with pleasure to the passing across not having tlin belief i am quite content to stay where i rjd as long as 1 can auu finally wben old charon appears to row me over the lliver styx 1 shall be readr { ] to go anne morgan will open civic club here new yokk jan 21 miss anne mor | gan with miss maude wo'inorc daugh ter of henry c wetmore will leave here for cbjcago to-morrow on a ten-day trip for the purpose of establishing sections of he wonmn branch or the civic fed eration in western stales lewinsohn paid six u s aids says wife missing bondsman's papers are declared io prove trans actions with high official with whom he dealt district attorney and woman's lawyer disagree over evi dence declaring they have no evidence of this kind mrs sol lewixsohx wlf of the fugitive banker and bail merchant last night stated that among her husband's papers were documents showing transactions with six important fed eral officials she says that the stubs of her hus band's cheek books were given by her into the keeping of charles erb stein her attorney erbstein in turn j says he delivered these with other i papers into the hands of james h : wilkerson united states district ! attorney mr wilkerson declares i that the only papers he got from erbstein were those involving united i states commissioner foote and for mer assistant state's attorney ben j davis facsimiles of these docu ments have already been published i the examiner mrs lewinsohn's statement is of an extremely startling character among the officials she names are men n important positions about the federal courts the examiner withholds these names from publica tion as it does not think it would be proper to make these charges pub lic until an investigation has shown : that there is more evidence to sup port them than the statement of the woman large sums paid officials the p.mounts of money the officials are said to have obtained from the loan shark whom she says wa.s a go-between for men accused of fed j eral offenses and those charged with i the duty of prosecuting them were [ large one official whose name has iigured in important cases from one cud of the country to the other she says received 5,000 in her presence she manes equally sensational state ments about equally or more impor lant people on the day that the first statement t : these payments uf money was printed mrs i.ewln.-iihn says she gave in lie i personal attorney mr erbstein tue checks involving the six federal official ind three stuh books shewing tin pay ment oi other uione s as well as a letter i involving a high government official erbstein repeated last night that he : iiaii 4iv.'n wilkerson ill the doctnneota i mrs !. wiu^uhn hail shown him to u stamiute her story that lewiusotan bad paid uiouej to officials who aided uiiu in his bond business and had handled ( money paid by wealthy defendants to ob tain clemency or immunity the woman was explicit in naming the pieces of evidence which she had givu to erbstein and the significance of eai ii if my husband could collect one-tuittl of the money he has given to federal of ficials in l'iitcago he would not dc bant i mot she said the documents wukli ! 1 have gfren to mr erbstein ind ate i where some oc the money went private papers vanish practically all of my husband's pri vate papers disappeared between the time he was last seen in the bank and the iiui ( . the receiver came to take ctuirge of it during those four days a former friend and business associate t my busuund bad charge of the office my husband bus figured in the rescue of many a wealthy defendant wuotn he government officials could nid without public scandal o*ne of the men who has been often named in this scandal stood here in thi j room and took so.uuo from my husband for his part in saving a notorious de fendant from jail since my hiistiuu.l has disappeared several of tlic federal officials have expressed a dis'ikc tot him which is almost hatred the big transact ious were nearly l ways made in cash lin^j*e stubs and cbecks^vhich i l-a^^^^bttorney au'l \ continued on 6th page 2d column examiner leads in circulation the daily and sunday examiner in december sold more papers in the city of Chicago than any other two morning papers with several thousand to spare circulation books open to the inspection of any advertiser i v ciccin.t ivoom is 3 sil needless loss to yoti t f that room of yours is vacant lor more cjji a than a week then you haven't used the u i sure quick way to find a tenant â€” through examiner want ads more rooms are rented mlffl every day through examiner want ads than t | ill hi ml t he examiner guarantees to rent your j\m jh ii a room call main 5000 now and ask about i lillilfifilllli l ' ie examiner's guaranteed room-to-renl j i : â– h||j ads they cannot fail to find a tenant wm i â€ž.. go into the examiner's i<f h3|i ftjlfh want ad contest sunday jsp Chicago and vicinity most k^-jj h iy cloudy thursday and friday not fj^ij^tfu 5 much change in temperature light to moderate variable winds jt-rurln-^-jj r range o temperatures yesterday [< att t hife-lest 33 l/vlfv l r lowest 1 â€” averaqc 2s >- _Â»/

Chicago examiner vol xii no 27 a m thursday Chicago january 22 1914 thursday registered in u s patent office price one cent gf'sk kriffil harrison knocks out vote fraud case props identifies letter charging crooked work was attempted against hoyne as written by harris prosecuting witness robert e crowe says letter was effort on part of election judge to save himself from prosecution on serious charges mayor carter h harrison and police lieutenant michael 3 gallery yesterday cave testimony in the so-termed vote fraud trial that proved a bombshell to the prosecution it not only great iy weakened the case gainsl the four defendants who are ac ii . altering ballots in the sixteenth precinct l the eighteenth ward but practically ii â€¢,ikÃŸi degrees of activity mrs h t stoutt of this city was treated by dr ege iu march 1910 for epithelioma of the left side of the nose | he applied 200 milligrams of radium to i the growth and within two months mrs | stoutt was entirely cured john haldeman of sunbury pa sev enty-eight years old had suffered for a year from cancers on both hands when on june 4 3906 he was given the first radium treatment on november 10 1900 dr ege pronounced the case as permanently cured radium had been applied seven times mrs s hollands fifty-three who had been suffering for several years with lupus vulgaris was given treatment by radium by dr ege the growth had spread over the entire face leaving an unsightly cavity in the center of the forehead on april 10 1910 ten milli grams of pure radium was applied later five additional tubes of radium of a milder degree of activity were used within less than three months tlie growth disappeared eva booth suffers general breakdown new york jan 21 commander kva booth of the salvation army is at the narr;i>-ks hero suffering with a severe hronch|al attack and general physical . breakdown following a meeting in isuf 1 f : i lf where she collapsed dr llarlow ri brooks . says her coudltiou is grave but not nlnrming girl artist disappears rich beautiful and 17 police hunt kidnapers daughter of wealthy manufac turer drops out of sight on city streets miss judith klassner of dusseldorf ger ' many niece of henry hitter wealthy metal sash manufacturer living at o.'i7 1 seminary avenue has disappeared in chi cago under circumstances which have caused grave alarm miss klassner is seventeen years old beautiful and tal i ented as a water color artist and said to be wealthy in her own right since coming to Chicago miss klassner has lived at the home of relatives 3733 greenview nvemie on january 17 she left there to visit friends ai 1 forty eighth street and langley avenue she flid not reach her destination she did not return to her rooms she did not com municate in any way with friends or rela tives s mr ritter exhausted all personal efforts lo trace his iiece before seeking the as sistance of the police then he appealed i to captain lames madklen of the town hall station i.iio assigned detective zable and gallon to find the missing girl they believe she may have been abducted and are seeking the kidnapers the detectives learned of her expressed desire to go on the stage some time all the art galleries were visited in vain individual artists some of whom knew of miss klassner's woru knew nothing of her disappearance her friends could offer no suggestion save that the girl might have lost her way in seeking to cross the city but even if that were true said hitter she would have been all light for she speaks english perfectly and she has traveled enough to know how to get assistance the trouble is worse than that on the strength of the possibility that the girl might have decided to try omt her ability as an actress the detectives communicated with many of the booking offices in the city none had booked a gill bearing miss klassner's description there are still some booking agencies hi Chicago that the deteetvres have not yet had time to canvas i cannot believe that my nieces would take a stage position without telling some of her friends or relatives said bitter and yet she did have an ambition in that direct ion and that is why her father wladiiuir klassner rich manu facturer constated io let her come to a nu hca miss jtidith elassner cullom is dying in way he desired absence of physical pain is feature of statesman's last illness washington jan 22 â€” at 2:45 a m former senator cullom was losing ground and his phy sicians were of the opinion that the ; end was near washington jan 21 after rallying j tin lie middle of the day former sena ; tor shelby m cullom of Illinois began i to fail late ii afternoon and to-night i it was i'.elij'w-i nis death was only a mat ter of hours the approach of death causes the veter an statesman none of the physical pain for which he had previously said he felt i a natural ire.id it is coming on him slowly and j:eni;y although very feeble he still retains consciousness and chats with those at his bedside i have iio great fear of death he wrote in his ixjok fifty years of public ; service two jeurs ago except the nat ural dread of the physical pain which i usually accompanies it i certainly wish | beyond any words i have power io ex j press that i could have greater assurance i that there will be a reuniting with those we love and fhose who have loved us iu some future yorld hut from my reading [ of scripture and even admitting that j there is a hereafter i cannot find any satisfactory evidence to warrant such a belief could 1 believe that i should meet the i loved ones who have gone before i do 1 not know but that t should look forward j with pleasure to the passing across not having tlin belief i am quite content to stay where i rjd as long as 1 can auu finally wben old charon appears to row me over the lliver styx 1 shall be readr { ] to go anne morgan will open civic club here new yokk jan 21 miss anne mor | gan with miss maude wo'inorc daugh ter of henry c wetmore will leave here for cbjcago to-morrow on a ten-day trip for the purpose of establishing sections of he wonmn branch or the civic fed eration in western stales lewinsohn paid six u s aids says wife missing bondsman's papers are declared io prove trans actions with high official with whom he dealt district attorney and woman's lawyer disagree over evi dence declaring they have no evidence of this kind mrs sol lewixsohx wlf of the fugitive banker and bail merchant last night stated that among her husband's papers were documents showing transactions with six important fed eral officials she says that the stubs of her hus band's cheek books were given by her into the keeping of charles erb stein her attorney erbstein in turn j says he delivered these with other i papers into the hands of james h : wilkerson united states district ! attorney mr wilkerson declares i that the only papers he got from erbstein were those involving united i states commissioner foote and for mer assistant state's attorney ben j davis facsimiles of these docu ments have already been published i the examiner mrs lewinsohn's statement is of an extremely startling character among the officials she names are men n important positions about the federal courts the examiner withholds these names from publica tion as it does not think it would be proper to make these charges pub lic until an investigation has shown : that there is more evidence to sup port them than the statement of the woman large sums paid officials the p.mounts of money the officials are said to have obtained from the loan shark whom she says wa.s a go-between for men accused of fed j eral offenses and those charged with i the duty of prosecuting them were [ large one official whose name has iigured in important cases from one cud of the country to the other she says received 5,000 in her presence she manes equally sensational state ments about equally or more impor lant people on the day that the first statement t : these payments uf money was printed mrs i.ewln.-iihn says she gave in lie i personal attorney mr erbstein tue checks involving the six federal official ind three stuh books shewing tin pay ment oi other uione s as well as a letter i involving a high government official erbstein repeated last night that he : iiaii 4iv.'n wilkerson ill the doctnneota i mrs !. wiu^uhn hail shown him to u stamiute her story that lewiusotan bad paid uiouej to officials who aided uiiu in his bond business and had handled ( money paid by wealthy defendants to ob tain clemency or immunity the woman was explicit in naming the pieces of evidence which she had givu to erbstein and the significance of eai ii if my husband could collect one-tuittl of the money he has given to federal of ficials in l'iitcago he would not dc bant i mot she said the documents wukli ! 1 have gfren to mr erbstein ind ate i where some oc the money went private papers vanish practically all of my husband's pri vate papers disappeared between the time he was last seen in the bank and the iiui ( . the receiver came to take ctuirge of it during those four days a former friend and business associate t my busuund bad charge of the office my husband bus figured in the rescue of many a wealthy defendant wuotn he government officials could nid without public scandal o*ne of the men who has been often named in this scandal stood here in thi j room and took so.uuo from my husband for his part in saving a notorious de fendant from jail since my hiistiuu.l has disappeared several of tlic federal officials have expressed a dis'ikc tot him which is almost hatred the big transact ious were nearly l ways made in cash lin^j*e stubs and cbecks^vhich i l-a^^^^bttorney au'l \ continued on 6th page 2d column examiner leads in circulation the daily and sunday examiner in december sold more papers in the city of Chicago than any other two morning papers with several thousand to spare circulation books open to the inspection of any advertiser i v ciccin.t ivoom is 3 sil needless loss to yoti t f that 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